Rocks and Rivers: Or Highland Wanderings Over Crag and Correi, "flood and Fell.".John Murray, 1849 - 185 pages |
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... Loch Awe . Sandy M'Kenzie and his man Johnnie . - Castle Connal.- A Highland chief stabbed by a penknife ! A fifty year old badger . - Anecdotes of badgers . - Hooking a fine ferox opposite the Gled's nest . - Johnnie's government ...
... Loch Awe . Sandy M'Kenzie and his man Johnnie . - Castle Connal.- A Highland chief stabbed by a penknife ! A fifty year old badger . - Anecdotes of badgers . - Hooking a fine ferox opposite the Gled's nest . - Johnnie's government ...
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... LOCH OW . " Haunts of the salmo - ferox . - Level shores . - Steep rocky banks.- Trolling depth when loch is large or discoloured . - When small and clear .-- Baits suitable for both moods of the water . - Five days ' trolling on Loch Awe ...
... LOCH OW . " Haunts of the salmo - ferox . - Level shores . - Steep rocky banks.- Trolling depth when loch is large or discoloured . - When small and clear .-- Baits suitable for both moods of the water . - Five days ' trolling on Loch Awe ...
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John Colquhoun (Author of The Moor and the Loch.) sailed in the Loch Goil steamboat , on my way to these favourite haunts . I had also put up two trolling - rods in compliment to the salmo - feroxes of Loch Awe . We left the Bromie ...
John Colquhoun (Author of The Moor and the Loch.) sailed in the Loch Goil steamboat , on my way to these favourite haunts . I had also put up two trolling - rods in compliment to the salmo - feroxes of Loch Awe . We left the Bromie ...
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... Loch Awe , where the cuckoo was heard in every dell , or seen poising himself upon some still leafless patriarchal thorn , and partly through the environs of the forest , I arrived at the solitary little inn of Inveruran . The ...
... Loch Awe , where the cuckoo was heard in every dell , or seen poising himself upon some still leafless patriarchal thorn , and partly through the environs of the forest , I arrived at the solitary little inn of Inveruran . The ...
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... Loch Awe , none but that poor , ragged , woe - begone old man shall com- mand my boat so long as he is able to do it . 99 Having satisfied myself that the " cobbles were not more leaky than they generally are , I returned to the inn ...
... Loch Awe , none but that poor , ragged , woe - begone old man shall com- mand my boat so long as he is able to do it . 99 Having satisfied myself that the " cobbles were not more leaky than they generally are , I returned to the inn ...
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